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Wow! It is one of the rarest of views I have seen in the wild! This unusual golden coin turtle is found in China. It is last year, a businessman from the city of Qingdao bought the reptile at an animal market. And the creature is just doing fine with…

Do all these these phenomenons in the Arctic sea reveal that global warming has started having its distinct impacts on the planet? Do you know, it is for the second year in a row, a large amount of Arctic sea ice did not refreeze during the winter as…

Researchers are preparing to collect snow samples from the Arctic. And for this, the team is preparing sled dogs to embark on the Arctic trek. It is to help NASA find out how much snow blankets the Earth, an expedition into the frozen Arctic kicks off..

NASA is funding 5 years Go North Expedition into the northern Arctic . The team will be starting on March 15 from the Alaska .to study out how much snow blankets the earth. Armed with two dogsled teams consisting of 12-13 huskies it seeks to…

Australia’s north-east coast is hit by a powerful tropical cyclone last weekend with a wind speed of up to 290km/h (180mph). It is the tropical Cyclone Larry hat that uncompromisingly smashed into Queensland at Innisfail, about 100km (62 miles) south of..

Global warming has reached a “tipping point,” and blame humans for this. It is alarming that this warming would continue even if greenhouse gas emissions halted immediately, according to a new survey of scientific research.

“It would keep on…

Frogs are the first amphibians to be placed alongside an exclusive group of mammals, such as whales and dolphins — that have ultrasonic ability. Some persistent croakers in China have ‘switched’ to ultrasound!

Albert Feng, a professor of…

Here is a piece of good news for ethanol producers. Defying the old notion, a recent study discovered that it takes less energy to produce ethanol than the corn-based fuel saves. There’s a 20 percent net energy gain by using fossil fuels to make…